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Andrew Edson wrote:
> Is there some program or procedure for stripping apostrophes (') from data in the db? Most of our data has been
shuffledover to Postgres from an older system, and I'm occasionally running into data entered in the old system that
hasapostrophes in it. (Most recent example: A name field with the word "Today's" in it.) Given that most of my
interactionswith the database are through perl scripts and php pages, I can't always tell ahead of time what field I
needis going to contain data that's deadly to my statements.
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> Alternately, is there some way of inserting or selecting data from the db which doesn't require the use of
apostrophesfor non-numeric fields?
Uhmm just prepare all your statements and this shouldn't be an issue.
Joshua D. Drake
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